ACCIDENTS, FATALITIES, ETC.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2159, 5 February 1891, Page 3

ACCIDENTS, FATALITIES, ETC.

A sad fatal accident happened in Timaru on Monday night about 6 o’clock, by which a little girl of 12 years, daughter of Mr J. Hole, brewer, lost her life. Mrs Herbert, of Glen-iti, waa driving out of the brewery yard in her spring cart, and just as she reached the gateway, tbelittle girl ran across in front of the horse, was struck by the shaft and knocked down, and then the horse stepped upon her chest, fehe got up and ran a few yards and then fell. She was picked up and carried home close by, and a doctor sent for, but her chest was so badly crushed that she died about ten o’clock. At the inquest a verdict of accidental death was returned. Nelson", Feb. 3. A burglary was committed last night at the store of Lewis Chittenden. A window was taken out and the safe cut open with a cold chisel and £22 abstracted. Gisboewe, Feb. 2. Edward Davis suddenly left the farm where he was working on the evening of January 28rd, and has not since been heard of. He had with him a cheque for £l2 10s, which has not since been cashed. Heleft at the homestead all his personal effects, also wages to the value of £3. There is

no accounting for the mysterious dis appearance. Cheistchuech, Feb. 2.

Two lads, Samuel Marden and James Evans, aged 20 and 13 respectively, were drowned to-day through a canoe capsizing in a dam at Mardon’s flax mill, Upper Eiecarton. No one witnessed the accident, but a lad passing saw the boat upset and one of the lad’s arms in the water and gave the alarm, when the employes at the mill used every effort to recover the bodies, Mardon’s father let off the water from the dam, soon after which the bodies were recovered.

Eugene Frawley, aged 39, lately a barman at Barrett’s hotel, met with a serious accident by removing the blinkers from a horse in a dray to feed him at noon to-day. The horse bolted, knocked Frawley down and trod on his chest. The wheel of the dray also went over him, breaking several of his ribs and completely crushing the' lungs. Dr Oionden is in attendance, but Frawley is not expected to live. Feb. 3. Alexander McKee, arrested here at the request of the Melbourne police, charged with horse-stealing, and remanded pending the receipt of an extradition warrant, was brought up and discharged, the charge having been withdrawn by cable from the Yietorian police. This morning a draper named Henry LeMercier, residing in Gloucester street east, died from the effects of an overdose of chloral. He bad been a sufferer from sleeplessness for a considerable time and had been in the habit of taking chloral as a remedy, Ha was 45 years old and married. To-day a settler named Dooley found the body of J. H. Hernall, drowned whilst attempting to cross the Hurunui a few weeks back. It was discovered 16 miles below where Hernall was drowned.

Oamaku, Feb. 2. The express train in coming into the station struck a dray at a level crossing. Two boys were in the dray, and both were thrown out, one escaping unhurt, but the other was badly injured. His left thigh was broken, and he received a wound in the head, He is unconscious, and it is not known whether his skull is fractured or not. The name of the boyJwho was injured was Eeid.

lirvßECAEtnLii, Feb, 2, Benjamin Bowen, station cook at Wairaki, was charged with harboring John Henry Lewis, a prisoner escaped from Milford, and was remanded. Bowen had served seven years for arson and met Lewis in Lyttelton gaol. The accused’s counsel said Lewis had a skeath knife in his possession and Bowen was afraid of his life if he informed the police. Edward Sutton, of Drummond, one of a family of well-known farmers in the district, was found dead this morning in circumstances indicating that he had committed suicide. Sutton, who was a single man, had been from home all day on Sunday, returning about 10 pm- About an hour afterwards a man heard the sound of a gunshot from the direction of Sutton’s house. This morning as he did not appear the door was forced, and Sutton found dead ia a pool of blood with a discharged gun close at hand. A box had been drawn across the door, evidently to present admission. Ho cause is yet assigned for the deed.